HMAS Kanimbla
# HMAS Kanimbla

Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Kanimbla, for the Kanimbla Valley in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales:

* HMAS Kanimbla (F23), a passenger liner launched in 1935, requisitioned by the Royal Navy as an armed merchant cruiser in 1939, converted into a RAN landing ship in 1943, and returned to owners in 1950
* HMAS Kanimbla (L 51), an amphibious transport ship acquired from the United States in 1994 and decommissioned in 2011

## Battle honours

Ships named HMAS Kanimbla are entitled to carry seven battle honours:

* New Guinea 1944
* Leyte Gulf 1944
* Lingayen Gulf 1945
* Borneo 1945
* Pacific 1945
* Persian Gulf 2001–03
* Iraq 2003
